Gearing.



PATENTED JAN. 28

J. STUART.

GEARING.

APPLICATION FILED APB..13, 1907.

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W1 TNESSES Aftomeys pair snares rnivr orrrcn JOSEPH STUART, OF ALLEGHENY, PENNSYLVANIA.

GEARING.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Jan. 28, recs.

Application filed April 13 1907- Serial No. 367.?27.

which the following is a specification, refer ones being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to gearing, and the invention relates more particularly to that type of machine wherein a receptacle is mounted for oscillation to cause the clothes contained within the receptacle to be agii tated by the water and cleansed thereby and by such detergent as may be placed therein.

The object of this inventionis to provide a novel device adapted to be operated by a water motor for oscillating a washing machine, the device being compact, simple, strong and durable, and of such a'construction as to insure a positive and easy oscillation thereof. I

The present invention is an improvement upon my invention disclosed in an application for patent filed December. 4th, 1906, Ser. No. 346,202, the present invention being wholly generic to the above mentioned case. The preferred embodiments of my invention are ilustrated and described'in the present application, but I desire it to be understood t at such changes in the structural details thereof as fall within the scope of the appended claims, can be resorted to without departing from the scope of the invention.

Referring to the drawing, forming part 'of this specification, wherein like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, Figure 1 1s a side elevation of my improved device as applied to a washing machine, Fig.- 2 is a rear elevation of the same partly in section, Fig. 3 is a bottom plan of the device detached from the washing machine, Fig. 4 is an end view of the portion of the device shown in Fig.

3, Fig. 5 is a detail view enlarged, of a portion of the device, in section on the line 55 of Fig. 3. In the accompanying drawing, I have illustrated a suitable support 1 for a tub or clothes receptacle 2, said receptacle being rcvolubl vmounted u on the support 1, and provide with a hand e 3, whereby said receptacle can be oscillated manually if desired. In connection with the support 1, I use a suitable bracket 4 for supporting a conventional form of water motor 5, said motor designed to reciprocate a rack 6 employed for operating my improved device as here after described.

The improved rack device consists of a skeleton segment shaped frame 7, suspended from the bottom of the tub 2 by brackets 8 forming part of the frame 7. The inner side of the frame is provided :with a segment shaped rack 9', while the outer side of the frame is formed with a segment shaped slot 10, the slot lying ina plane above the rack 9.

Suitably journaled upon the bracket 4 is a pinion 11 adapted to mesh with the rack 6. The shaft 12 of the pinion 11 extends upwardly into the slot of the frame 7, and directly above the pinion 11 the frame 7 is provided with a sector 14 having teeth 15 upon its curved edge, said teeth meshing with the segment-shaped rack 9.

When the rack is reciprocated by the motor device 5, a corresponding movement will be imparted to the pinion 1 1, which through the medium of the sector 14 and the rack 9 imparts an oscillatory movement to the tub 2, the frame 7 and the tub 2 being guided and limited in their movements by the fact of the vice in connection with a motor driven rack,

I am enabled to oscillate any receptacle mounted for such' purpose and e nipped with my improved device, therefore do not care to confine my invention particularly as an attachment for washing machines of the type above described.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a device of the class described, a frame adapted to be connected to a receptacle and formed with a segmental gear rack and a segmental slot spaced apart and concentric to the oscillating point of the recep tacle, a stub shaft extending through said slot, a sector carried by said shaft and provided with a gear segment engaging the se mental ear rack of said frame, a gear who 1 carried y said shaft, a reciprocating gear rack engaging said gear wheel, and means for operating said reciprocating. ear rack.

2. Ina deviceofithe class 5 I supporting base having a centralpivot, a

ing a-gear'segment engaging said se mental frame 'rack, a gear wheel carried y said shaft, a reciprocating rackengaging said gear Wheel, and means for actuating said reciprocating rack.

escribed', a-

said frame.

3. .ad'eirice for operating Washing ma-' chines, consisting of a frame; adapted tobe connected to a machineja segment-shaped 'rack carried by'one edgp of said frame, the

opposite ed e of saidame having a seg; ment-shape slot formed therein, a pinion mounted for oscillation adjacent to said frame, a toothed sector carried b; said pinion and meshing with said rac and gmeans carried by said inion and associated with said slot for guiding the movement'of In testimony whe'rof I in the presence of two'witnesses. I

F JOSEPH STUART.-

- Witnesses: I f

' Max H. SRoLovrrz,

K. H. BUTLER.

affix my signature 

